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Abstract

This Installation Guide describes the steps to install ZK Studio by using either the Eclipse Plugin Mechanism to install online, or by using downloaded site.zip file to install offline. In addition to this the respective uninstall methods are described.
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Extract "eclipse" from the downloaded zip file to a location of your choice. To make sure Eclipse can run on your system, execute eclipse.exe (in windows) or eclipse (in unix ). You can locate these files in your extracted eclipse folder.

1. We recommend modifying some parameters in the configuration file eclipse.ini which will result in performance gain, please refer here and here.

2. We also recommend using the Java Development Kit (JDK) as the default JRE for Eclipse IDE, please follow these instructions to make the JDK the default JRE.

Application servers

Before developing web applications in Java using the ZK Ajax Framework, you need to install an application server. Apache Tomcat is one of the most popular Web containers. Tomcat versions 5.5 and 6 are supported and can be downloaded at the following link http://tomcat.apache.org/.

Install:

Download the zip file of Tomcat distribution and extract it to a proper location (with no illegal characters or space in the path). Tomcat requires configuration before it can be used with Eclipse, this process is described in the following link ZK Studio Essentials.

Tips:

If you not only want to develop Web Applications, but also need to deploy them on Apache Tomcat, links to the official installation instructions for directly running Apache Tomcat in your environment are provided below: